Keeping up with the Jones’s has never been easier with this summer’s essential recycled products for the garden. National recycling campaign, Rethink Rubbish, has put together the most stylish ‘must haves’ for the best dressed turfs.

Say goodbye to kitsch garden items and fill your home patch with exciting new products whilst helping the environment at the same time.

Ideal for green fingered folk, the Plant Pot Maker (£11.70) from the Organic Gardening Catalogue turns old newspapers into clever containers. Start composting with the simple to use, luxury Garden Gourmet Composter (£59.95) and Wormery (£88) both made from recycled plastic and a blooming good way to boost your blossoms while reducing kitchen and garden rubbish.

Help nature take its course with a bird box made from reclaimed timber by Pathway Workshop (£10) or rest those weary legs on a reclaimed wood bench also by Pathway Workshop (£95).

Keep containers and recycled plastic trugs (Natural Collection, £16.75 set of three) watered with an unusual watering can made from rejected tin designs from Jane Packer’s Outdoor Living range at Selfridges (£18).

Or if you want to add the perfect finishing touches, create an interesting focal point, with a selection of quality animal ornaments (reused metals) from Recycles. Prices start at £30.

For those long, hot summer evenings why not relax on the patio, sipping a tipple from the stylish recycled wine glasses from Natural Collection (£29.75) and create a soothing atmosphere with decorative lanterns made by Used2Bee (£5.99) from reclaimed jam jars.

• Recycled products are of poor quality
  REALITY: Not true. Aluminium, steel and glass can be recycled repeatedly without a loss in quality.
  
  
• Recycled products are expensive
  REALITY: Recycled products shouldn’t cost more and are often competitively priced.
  
  
• Recycled products are not attractive to look at.
  REALITY: Not true. For some products it is impossible to tell the difference between recycled and non-recycled items.
  
  
• Recycled products consume more energy and resources than a product made from primary materials.
  REALITY: Not true. Many recycled products offer significant savings in terms of energy and water as well as primary raw materials. For example every tonne of recycled paper saves trees, electricity and water resulting in 74% less air pollution and 34% less water pollution than manufacturing a tonne of paper from virgin wood pulp.